Who's Minding the Store?

Who's Minding the Store?

Infobox_Film
name = Who's Minding the Store?


director = Frank Tashlin
writer = Frank Tashlin
Harry Tugend
starring = Jerry Lewis
Jill St. John
Agnes Moorehead
Ray Walston
Kathleen Freeman
producer = Paul Jones
distributor = Paramount Pictures
released = November 28, 1963
runtime = 90 minutes
language = English| imdb_id = 0057683

"Who's Minding the Store?" is a comedy film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Jerry Lewis. It was released on November 28, 1963 by Paramount Pictures.

Plot

Mrs. Tuttle (Agnes Moorehead) is upset that her daughter Barbara (Jill St. John) is engaged to a man beneath their social stature, Norman Phiffier (Jerry Lewis).

Phiffier, a dog walker, is as awkward socially as he is physically. Mrs. Tuttle despises Phiffier and arranges for him to get a job at one of her stores. She directs the store manager, Mr. Quimby (Ray Walston) to assign him a series of impossible and outrageous jobs hoping he will become frustrated and quit, proving to her daughter that he is worthless. Instead, he becomes more driven and determined as he progresses with Mr. Quimby realizing that "he's a man of character."

Meanwhile, Barbara has kept her millionaire status as the sole heir to the Tuttle Department store fortune from Phiffier knowing he is a proud person who refuses to marry her until he can afford to buy her a home.

Eventually Phiffier proves his worth to Mrs. Tuttle and she accepts him into her family.

Production

"Who's Minding the Store?" was filmed from March 25-May 22, 1963.

Notable facts

*The scene in which Fritz Feld feeds Lewis a delicacy of fried ants actually contained genuine fried ants, a fact that Lewis was unaware of until after the scene was over.

*The film's poster can be seen in the background of Jerry's film, "The Patsy" when Ina Balin gets into a phone both to call Jerry's character, Stanley Belt.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057683/ Who's Minding the Store?] on imdb.com


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